Chapter 495: The Wind Has Risen

Netscape and Microsoft will eventually fight. Both want to become the hegemon of the global Internet industry. Whether it is Netscape or Microsoft, if there is no opponent, for other Internet companies, they are the evil dragon.

Don't think that Netscape is any good bird. It is because it has no chance to become an evil dragon. Otherwise, with Netscape's ambition, users must pass through the Netscape browser to use software such as Yahoo, ebay, Amazon, etc.

Netscape's goal is to become the door to the Internet. Everyone entering and leaving the Internet must pass through Netscape. This overbearingness is not a bit worse than Microsoft!

They fought, and Yahoo, Amazon, and other Internet companies had the opportunity to develop. Otherwise, they would be swallowed by Netscape one by one sooner or later!

After Jim and Andreessen left, Li Dongling called Zhou Hualiang over and explained a few words to him. The latter then walked toward the founders of GeoCities website and ASK and said a few words in a low voice.

Subsequently, the founders of the two GeoCities website companies looked at Li Dongling with surprise. Li Dongling raised his champagne to the two to indicate.

At the banquet tonight, Li Dongling had no time to take care of the founders of ASK, but he didn't want to miss these two big black fish in vain.

Holding these two big black fish, it only takes two or three years to recover the cost, and it can also get hundreds or thousands of times the return. Li Dongling is not willing to miss it in vain.

The banquet tonight is actually to take the opportunity to set up the banner of Himalaya Radio in Silicon Valley, letting Silicon Valley, the center of the American Internet, know about the existence of Himalaya Radio.

In the end, it depends on Himalaya Radio's own performance. If you bloom, the butterflies will come naturally. Whether it is a mule or a horse, you will only know after you have walked it.

"Yahoo will support Himalaya Radio!"

After Mo Mo Lizi left, Jerry Yang expressed his attitude to Li Dongling. This is also to thank Li Dongling for his support for Yahoo's founding team.

Li Dongling is still counting on the return brought by Yahoo to the Zhixing Foundation. How can he allow someone to intercept Yahoo halfway!

If Yahoo can reach the market value of the previous life after going public, at its peak, Yahoo's market value exceeded 128 billion US dollars. According to the 7.5% Yahoo equity held by the Zhixing Foundation, the value of this equity exceeded 9.6 billion US dollars!

Of course, such a large amount of US dollar stocks cannot all be cashed out at the high point. Basically, after Yahoo's market value approaches 100 billion US dollars, it has to start to cash out slowly. At the highest point, sell off Yahoo stocks almost cleanly, leave a little bit as a souvenir, and retain the status of Yahoo board members. The last coin of Yahoo, Li Dongling will not fight with others.

"I believe in Yahoo's founding team, and I believe that under your leadership, Yahoo can exceed the expectations of the outside world. On the Yahoo board of directors, the vote held by the Zhixing Foundation will always be cast for you!"

Li Dongling's output of chicken soup made Jerry Yang, who had seen the intrigue of Silicon Valley venture capital and Huaerjie institutions in the past few years, feel deeply touched.

It is not that all venture capital people will support company founders so unconditionally like Li Dongling. Venture capital companies abandoning founders, turning against company founders, and sweeping them out of the house are the norm, and there is nothing strange at all.

On the contrary, Li Dongling's support for founders is quite rare in Silicon Valley. Jerry Yang feels that I am afraid that only investors from the domestic old home will appear in a place where only the US dollar is the standard, such a drama of Bole and Qianli Horse!

"As long as I am still at Yahoo, Yahoo will support Himalaya Radio, I guarantee!" Jerry Yang said solemnly to Li Dongling.

Li Dongling looked at Jerry Yang's expression. He didn't know what drama he had performed in his heart, but looking at Jerry Yang's expression, Li Dongling still nodded.

The banquet was more than half over, and Li Dongling received quite a few business cards, quite a few of which were founders of Silicon Valley start-up companies, who stuffed business cards to Li Dongling.

The reputation of the Zhixing Foundation in Silicon Valley, although not as good as Sequoia Capital, KPCB, etc., but two investments, Yahoo and Excite, are now quite famous, especially Yahoo is about to go public. This kind of 100% success rate makes quite a few Internet small companies want to try their luck from Li Dongling.

"Li!"

"We need to talk!"

After Li Dongling exchanged greetings with several small Internet company founders, Excite President Steve Kirsch couldn't help but find Li Dongling.

Looking at Steve Kirsch's serious expression, Li Dongling looked at the time. "Tomorrow, let's talk at the Himalaya Silicon Valley office!"

Steve Kirsch hesitated for a moment, but still nodded. Although he was anxious, he also knew that some things could not be rushed, and it didn't matter for one night.

"What happened to Excite?"

In the second half of the banquet, Li Dongling, who had drunk quite a bit of wine, withdrew. After returning to the hotel conference room, he asked Zhou Hualiang.

Dongling High-Tech's business in America, including Feiyan Technology, Zhixing Foundation, and other businesses, were all managed by him. Zhou Hualiang naturally knew the best about Excite's affairs.

"I am afraid it is mainly a matter of budget. Internet companies have insufficient budget. Not all Internet companies have the luck of Netscape and Yahoo, which can go public in a year or a half, or get a large amount of venture capital." Zhou Hualiang said.

Excite's budget is about to bottom out, but the search industry is not favored by investors, who think it is a money-losing product!

Netscape plays with browsers, and Yahoo never claims that it is a search company, but the concept of a portal website. Excite is a thorough search company. No one knows how to make search monetize, so it is naturally not favored.

Silicon Valley venture capital companies don't favor search companies like Excite and ASK at all. Seeing that the budget is about to burn out, plus the news that Yahoo is about to go public, it stimulated Excite a bit.

After all, Excite and Yahoo were invested by the Zhixing Foundation at the same time, but seeing Yahoo eating and drinking spicy food, taking a large amount of venture capital, and about to go public, while Excite has to tighten its belt to live, how can it be reconciled?

Hearing Excite's situation, Li Dongling thought for a while. He certainly couldn't let Excite collapse. No matter what, he had to let it live. When the Internet market completely rises, let it go public, or like the previous life, find a big financier like Disney to take over for Excite.

But no matter what, in these one or two years, he definitely couldn't let Excite collapse. He had to prepare some relief food for Excite, and the chicken soup couldn't stop!

"Larson, the Himalaya Internet Radio side in Silicon Valley will be responsible by us, and it will go online as soon as possible!

What you need to do is to recruit the necessary creators for Himalaya Radio, create momentum, let the podcast creators and podcast program content on the Himalaya platform form public opinion and topics in America, and attract more people's attention!"

After the banquet, in the hotel conference room, Li Dongling, Yao Luoying, Zhou Hualiang, Xu Yansheng, and Larson, who had drunk quite a bit of wine, were all present.

Larson was returning to New York tomorrow. Li Dongling had quite a few things that needed to be explained to him. The most important thing was to need Larson to recruit quite a few special and talented podcast creators for Himalaya Radio.

For example, some people who support the Flat Earth theory, let him promote his set of Flat Earth theory on Himalaya Radio, and big mouths, people who speak without covering their mouths, let them spray hard, spray heaven, spray earth, spray air, and frustrated hip-hop rappers, etc., can all be recruited.

Don't be afraid of their big mouths, speaking without covering their mouths, etc., just be afraid that they can't let go. Only when there is controversy will there be topics, and only when there are topics can they attract more people's attention. Only when there is attention will there be traffic. Once an Internet company has traffic, it can go public!

"I know," although Larson's face carried the color of wine, his eyes were still shining. "Li, don't worry, I will find these talents you need as soon as possible. But to be honest, can they really help Himalaya Radio?"

Regarding the podcast creators Li Dongling needed, to be honest, Larson was a bit skeptical. He knew that he was not a good bird, but the group of people Li Dongling wanted to find clearly were not decent people either, at least completely different from those who appeared in traditional media.

"The Internet is a platform completely different from traditional media. Sometimes, it is a place where curiosity can attract eyes and traffic. A dog biting a person is not news, but a person biting a dog is!"

Li Dongling simply told Larson about the logic of the Internet. Larson scratched his head. Although he was still a bit confused, he felt that Li Dongling's theory seemed to have no problem...

Black red is also red. Countless people in the previous life, in order to fight for fame on the Internet, were almost unscrupulous, even if they were ruined, because it was really profitable!

As long as it is red, there is traffic. Open a live broadcast. Even if countless people scold it, relying on feeding rewards, you can earn half a year or even several years of income for ordinary people. In the case of popularity, if you pull down your face and live broadcast to bring goods, it is not a problem to earn millions in a month. If you wash white later, advertisers and sponsors can be received.

For some people, what are face and conscience? If money is gone, you can earn it again, but if you don't want conscience and face, you earn more.

Because it is profitable, "aliens" will appear on the Internet. After all, who is willing to do things without benefits?

On the second day, Li Dongling and Yao Luoying got up from the hotel where they stayed in Silicon Valley and headed to the Himalaya Silicon Valley office.

Inside the office, unlike yesterday, today, the worries of Ma Chaoyang, Shi Beiyang, and other Himalaya staff were swept away.

When they learned that the parent company of Himalaya Internet Radio was Feiyan Technology, and Feiyan was under Dongling High-Tech, Ma Chaoyang and the others didn't need to worry at all.

With Dongling High-Tech, this big financier, as long as Himalaya is not too bad, there is no need to worry about the situation that the big financier cannot afford it, and there is no need to worry about the budget!

Especially the banquet last night made Ma Chaoyang and the others understand that the parent company was clearly preparing to make a big fight in Silicon Valley and the American Internet industry with Himalaya!